Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:

Bel Canto author Ann Patchett and her Nashville bookstore[7] were featured on Super Soul Sunday, a show on OWN—Patchett explains that the idea that books and bookstores are dead is fiction. (Huffington Post)